Polishing compound for cleaning and restoring the luster of varnish, enamel, and lacquer



Patented Mar. 18, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH G. wnnmo, or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

POLISHING COMPOUND FOR CLEANING AND RESTORING- THE LUS'IER OF VABNISH,

ENAMEL, AND LACQUER No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, RALPH G. WARING, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Polishing Compound for Cleaning and Restoring the Luster of Varnish, Enamel, and Laoquer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a polishing-compound for cleaning and restoring the luster of varnished, enameled, lacquered and analogous, surfaces, and is particularly useful in maintaining the flexibility and durability of varnished surfaces.

The main object is toprovide an economic luster-restoring emulsion which is expeditious in its action and highly efiicient when properly used for the purposes just mentioned without in any way injuring the most delicately finished surfaces.

In other words, I have sought to combine certain varnish cleaning and luster-restoring agents in such manner as to produce a Z more or less viscous substance technically known as a colloid or gel-which may be put up in collapsible tubes of any suitable or convenient size and applied to the surface to be treated directly therefrom.

Another object is to prepare the compound in such manner that certain ingre-- dients thereof will act as oil replenishing agent capable of penetrating the pores of the deteriorated varnish and thereby becoming incorporated in the varnish surface to such an extent as to cause all of the ingredients to vanish or disappear when properlv applied with a rubbing motion.

her object and uses relating to the com pounding and use of the emulsion will be brought out in the following description:

The materials and proportions of the ingredients used in the present manufacture of the compound has been carefully selected and combined in such manner that each performs a particular and beneficial function when properly applied to the surface to be treated and includes broadly any suitable lubricator, such 'as,-paraifine oil; a

varnish restorer, such as,-a vegetable oil preferably linseed oil; a suitable thinner and dryer, such as turpentine substitute Serial no. 503,971.

(petroleum distillate); a solvent, such as wood alcohol; a saponifier, such as caustic soda and a suitable conveyer, such as water, all combined in approximately the following proportion:

j Part8. Parafiine oil 10 Vegetable oils.. 5 Petroleum distillate.- .1 Wood alcohol 5 Caustic soda 1 Water 16 These various ingredients are placed in a suitable receptacle and vigorousl agitated under a temperature below the boi in point of water (preferably between '60 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit) until they are completely emulsified, the emulsion being then removed and placed in commercially marketable containers, such as collapsible tubes ready for use.

In the use of this emulsion, it is preferegrecs ably applied to the surface to be treated by means of a soft cloth, such as cheese cloth with a rubbing motion until the desired result is obtained, the parafiine oil or its cohol, caustic soda and water serve their respective functions in the preparation of the compound to produce the desired emulsion by agitation with the other ingredients, and while I disclose certain materials and proportions of the ingredients and the method of combining them to produce an emulsion with sufiicient clearness to enable anyone skilled in the art to make and compound the same, it isevident that these materials and the proportions of the ingredients may be materially altered without departing from the spirit of this invention and therefore, I do not wish to limit myself to the materials specified nor to the proportions of the ingredients nor to the temperature under which they may be reduced to an emulsion.

What I claim is:

1. A polishing compound containing water, petroleum distillate and a vegetable oil in the form of a non-flowing emulsion.

2. A polishing compound containing water, a petroleum-distillate, a lubricating oil, a vegetable oil, and a saponifying agent in the form of a colloidal emulsion.

3. A polishing compound comprising a mixture of paraffin oil, a vegetable oil, a drying agent, a saponifying 'agent, and water in the form of a viscous emulsion.

4. A polishing compound for varnish, lacquer and analogous surfaces comprising paraffine oil vegetable oil, turpentine substitute, wood alcohol, caustic soda and water in approximately the proportions described and emulsified.

5 The herein described method of making a polish-compound for-varnished surfaces consisting in converting a mixture RALPH G. WARING. Witnesses: H. E. CHASE, M. R. COOKIE. 

